How to Manage Your Field Services Data With Ease

This day and age, field services companies of all sizes are amassing large amounts of data—usually from a variety of data sources. Business owners find that “wrangling” this data is difficult and time-consuming without the right set of big data tools. But that’s where unified fleet tracking, asset tracking, and field services software comes in.

The Dynamic Universe of Field Services Data

Consider the many sources of your field services business data:

Employee timesheets

Driving logs, mileages logs, etc.

Employee receipts for gas, tolls, parking, etc.

Employee expense reports

Vehicle inspection reports

Technician schedules

Job orders

Invoices

And more!

And consider the type of date you’re using on a daily basis to manage your field services business:

GPS data

Customer data

Job/order data

Vehicle diagnostics

And more!

And now consider how many different apps and/or devices (or file folders and desk drawers) you’re accessing to collect, view, and store the data, from your desktop computer to mobile phone.

Data, Data, Data!

It all gets a tad overwhelming, doesn’t it? What’s a field services business to do? Here’s how Tate Freundlich of Green Ride explains his pre-Automile challenges with the decentralization of data collection:

“The data will come from all different types of sources. For example, we will have to take what employees will write on vehicle inspection report and enter into the database….Then we were using a tablet for GPS location, where someone spent a lot of time and that would be another source. Using tablet GPS to find locations wasn’t always accurate. All it takes is the driver tapping the wrong icon and the data is inaccurate.”

Multiple sources, manual entry, user error…ouch. But by adopting Automile, he has centralized a huge amount of his field services business’s data and has a one-stop-shop (the Automile app!) for managing it.

And what’s more, Automile has simple REST based API—along with smart notifications with webhooks—to make integrating, extending, and building on top of Automile easy and fun, bringing more value to your data! Learn more in Making The API Fun Again.

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